I only recently got serious about fly fishing, and I jumped in on a club trip to Pyramid Lake, home of the Lahontan Cutthroat. Huge, beautiful, amazing creatures. I wasn’t able to get photos, but imagine standing tail deep in water with dozens of 5-30 pound fish swirling around you. Incredible.
After months of trying before the trip I wasn’t able to find waders in my size. I’m a queen, and I know it. Yes, I’m working on the diet. It was supposed to be freezing cold but instead was unseasonably warm, by a lot! Talking 70°F in the afternoons, and mid 40’s to mid 50’s in the morning. Sooooo, I went with plan B. Eh, 5/10, recommend only on warm days. Bring plenty of lotion for each evening to mitigate the effects of the harsh alkaline water.
So the fish. I wasn’t always able to ladder fish because of the missing waders, so half the time I was fly fishing, and the other half, well, we won’t talk about that. Even my fly setup wasn’t right: I swore I grabbed my fast sinking heavy rod surf setup but found out at the lake it was my suspending/slow sinking lake setup. Of the five fish caught this weekend three were on flies. These are absolutely my PB trout ever, first and PB cutthroat, and PB anything on flies. Bustin all my records. Even first time all barbless and all C&R. Apparently they don’t taste good.
I am very sad I have to leave now. I really like that lake. I didn’t get photos all my fish. They almost seem to know the drill: they’ll hold still for a moment once the tail is grasped and the chest cradled, but it’s a roulette toss in whether they’ll hold long enough for a photo before performing a perfect grip break twist and flawless swan dive back into the water. One let me take several photos, the last one last night waited none and bounced right over the net edge as soon as I lifted her out.
100/10 Will be back again, better prepared.
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